Overview

The consequences of globalizations, particularly for employment, wages, and incomes, arouse widespread concern. This book investigates the basis for these anxieties by analysing the effects of the growing two-way trade in manufactures between North and South - the core of globalization. Its conclusions set fresh parameters for the globalization debate. Presenting results of new research, the author shows that, contrary to popular perceptions, global income inequality is actually declining, South-North migration is falling, and job opportunities and wages are rising in a significant number of developing countries. Moreover, the author finds no evidence of falling labour standards in integrating economies, nor that globalization can be blamed for the labour market disadvantages of low-skilled labour in industrialized countries. While showing many of the public concerns about globalization to be unfounded, the analysis exposes other serious problems that until now have received scant attention, such as increasing marginalization of the poorest countries heavily dependent on exports of primary commodities, a high and growing level of brain drain from poor to rich countries, the potentially high costs for developing countries of pursuing integration as an objective in itself, and the failure of globalization to stimulate global economic growth. This important book points to difficult challenges that the international community must meet if the potential benefits of globalization are to be realized and all nations and people are to share in them.

Full Product Details

Author:   Ajit Kumar Ghose
Publisher:   International Labour Office
Imprint:   International Labour Office
Dimensions:   Width: 15.90cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 24.10cm
Weight:   0.012kg
ISBN:  

9789221127178

ISBN 10:   9221127176
Pages:   150
Publication Date:   01 June 2003
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock  
The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available.

Table of Contents

l Chapter 1: Introduction l Chapter 2: Globalization: Characteristics, Issues and Concerns What is globalization? Globalization: An empirical sketch Globalization: Then and now Globalization: Issues and concerns l Chapter 3: Trade and Global Income Inequality Introduction Global income inequality The preliminaries Inter-country inequality International inequality Trade liberalization and global income inequality Conclusions l Chapter 4: Trade, Jobs and Wages Introduction What does economic theory tell us? The basic analytical framework A necessary dose of realism The empirical evidence Trade and the pattern of specialization Employment and wages in industrialized countries Employment and wages in developing countries A summing up l Chapter 5: Trade and International Migration Introduction Trade and international migration: Insights from economic theory International migration in the 1990s: The evidence The trends The phenomenon of brain drain International migration, then and now Conclusions l Chapter 6: Trade and Labour Standards Introduction Trade and labour standards: Theory and evidence Some preliminaries An analytical perspective Unfair trade and social dumping Race to the bottom Improving labour standards in a developing economy Concluding remarks l Chapter 7: Conclusions References

Reviews

Author Information

Ajit K. Ghose is Senior Economist in the Employment Strategy Department of the ILO.

Tab Content 6

Author Website:  

Countries Available

All regions